Instead of basing its technology on existing open source databases, Snowflake decided to create its own homegrown SQL relational database that can analyze both transactional data and machine data Read more »

Facebook’s open source engine for interactive queries on Hadoop is now available as a cloud service thanks to startup Qubole. Facebook claims Presto is 10 times faster than Hive for most queries. Read more »

So far, use of business intelligence is still limited. Making it more compact, more embedded, often cloud-hosted, and often self-service will be crucial for increasing its value and success rate. Read more »

Today Microsoft announced the general availability of its IaaS offering. This follows last week’s announcement from Amazon, who has reduced the price of Windows Server VMs in anticipation of the Microsoft… Read more »